viii, 390 pages 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references

1. Approaches. Knowledge as a form of power -- History as private enterprise -- What is radical history? 2. Essays in American history. (class) Inequality -- The Ludlow Massacre -- LaGuardia in the Jazz Age -- The limits of the New Deal -- (race) Abolitionists and the tactics of agitation -- Psychoanalyzing the dissenters: two case -- Liberalism and racism -- Albany, Georgia, and the new frontier -- (nationalism) Aggressive liberalism -- Vietnam: the moral equation -- The prisoners: a bit of contemporary history -- Violence: the double standard -- Hiroshima and Royan. 3. Theory and praxis. Freedom and responsibility -- The historians -- The philosophers -- Philosophers, historians, and causation

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